SIMRAN KAUR
Grid of repetitive lines which were used as a base to find a moment for design.
This temporary housing stay for refugee families is known as “The Edge House”. Unlike the modern refugee homes which house hundreds of refugees and are not well equiped to source the refugee population, The Edge House provides a new and a convalescent area. Each triangle is a loft style apartment equipped with an inhouse kitchen, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, living room and dining space dedicated specifically for a single refugee family. A cojoined studio space between the 2 apartments is used for ceramics and gardening as a means for the refugees to provide for themselves by selling the products created.
These images show the first and second floor plan along with the studio space and cojoined balcony. The first floor both the apartment is equipped with a kitchen, living room and a dining room with one apartment having direct access into the amphitheater area (hatched semicircle) and the other one exiting out to the street. The second floor is accessed through spiral staricase on the corners of the first floor. Second floor is contains a bathroom, bedroom and closet. A cojoined private balcony overlooking the ampitheater on top of the studio space. The studio space can be accessed through both the apartment complexes and has a small balcony in the back used to dry ceramic pots and store gardenning tools.
Images depict long and cross section and elevation. The hatch which represents ciding can be seen in the cross elevation on the apartment complex behind, indicating the entryway of the apartment.